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Definitions

• the present invention claims the priority of a Chinese patent application filed on October 19, 2012, the Chinese Patent Application No. 201210401050.1, entitled “Signal Transmission Method and System and Apparatus". The entire contents are incorporated herein by reference.
• TECHNICAL FIELD The present invention relates to communications technologies, and in particular, to a signal transmission method and system and apparatus.
• downlink refers to data transmission from the base station to the user terminal
• uplink refers to data transmission from the user terminal to the base station.
• the user terminal can perform data transmission with a plurality of base stations, that is, the user terminal associates with at least two base stations and transmits data to them.
• the user terminal can only transmit data to one base station in one time period, and transmit data to another base station in another time period, that is, cannot transmit data to two base stations simultaneously in one time period, thereby causing The transmission efficiency of the data transmitted by the user terminal is low.
• the present invention provides a method and system for transmitting a signal and a device for solving the problem that the transmission efficiency of the data transmitted by the user terminal to the user terminal cannot be simultaneously transmitted to the two base stations at the same time in the prior art.
• a first aspect of the present invention provides a method for transmitting a signal, including:
• K is an integer and is greater than or equal to 1; ⁇ is a preset threshold; ⁇ is a timing advance of the first base station corresponding to the first virtual user; and 2 is a second base station corresponding to the second virtual user The amount of time advancement; ⁇ is the timing advance of the ⁇ th base station corresponding to the ⁇ th virtual user.
• Another aspect of the present invention provides a signal transmission apparatus, including:
• a setting module configured to set a virtual user, each of the virtual users being associated with a base station;
• An obtaining module configured to perform base station precoding and user precoding corresponding to each of the ⁇ virtual users
• a shunting module configured to offload a baseband signal to the virtual users, and acquire a shunt baseband signal corresponding to each of the k virtual virtual users;
• a processing module configured to process a baseband signal corresponding to each of the virtual users according to the base station precoding and the user precoding corresponding to each of the virtual users, to obtain an uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user;
• a sending module configured to acquire time advancements ⁇ t x , t 2 , . . . , t K ⁇ of the base stations corresponding to the virtual users, and at ⁇ ⁇ ( ⁇ 2 , . . . , ⁇ )- When ⁇ ( ⁇ 2 , . . . , ⁇ ) ⁇ , the uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user is transmitted to the base station corresponding to each virtual user through the antenna;
• ⁇ is an integer, and ⁇ is greater than or equal to 1;
• S is a preset threshold;
• ⁇ is the time advance of the first base station corresponding to the first virtual user;
• t 2 is the second base station corresponding to the second virtual user The amount of time advance;
• ⁇ is the time advance of the first base station corresponding to the virtual user.
• a still further aspect of the present invention provides a signal transmission system including a base station and a user terminal, wherein the user terminal is a signal transmission apparatus according to any one of claims 10 to 18; One of the virtual users in the user terminal is associated.
• the technical effects of the present invention are: setting a virtual user, and each virtual user and one base station Correlation, obtaining base station precoding and user precoding corresponding to each virtual user of the K virtual users, offloading the baseband signal to the ⁇ virtual users, and acquiring the shunt baseband signal corresponding to each virtual user of the virtual users And according to the base station precoding and the user precoding corresponding to each virtual user, respectively processing the shunt baseband signals corresponding to each user to obtain an uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user; and then acquiring a base station corresponding to the virtual user
• the corresponding base station transmits an uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user, so that the user terminal simultaneously transmits different or the same uplink signals to different or the same base station, and ensures that interference between uplink signals of different virtual users can be
• FIG. 1 is a flow chart of an embodiment of a signal transmission method of the present invention
• FIG. 2 is a flow chart of another embodiment of a method for transmitting a signal according to the present invention.
• FIG. 3 is a flow chart of still another embodiment of a method for transmitting a signal according to the present invention.
• FIG. 4 is a flow chart of still another embodiment of a method for transmitting a signal according to the present invention.
• FIG. 5 is a flowchart of still another embodiment of a signal transmission method according to the present invention.
• FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a signal transmission apparatus according to the present invention.
• FIG. 7 is a schematic structural view of another embodiment of a signal transmission apparatus according to the present invention.
• FIG. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of still another embodiment of a signal transmission apparatus according to the present invention.
• FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of still another embodiment of a signal transmission apparatus according to the present invention.
• FIG. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of still another embodiment of a signal transmission apparatus according to the present invention.
• FIG. 11 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a signal transmission system according to the present invention.
• Figure 12 is a schematic diagram showing the principle of another embodiment of the signal transmission system of the present invention. detailed description
• the number of antennas of the base station is generally smaller than the number of antennas of the user terminal.
• the second type When the number of antennas of the base station is greater than or equal to the number of antennas of the user terminal, the maximum number of data streams transmitted by the base station to the user terminal is smaller than the number of antennas of the user terminal due to the correlation of the antenna.
• the first type The multi-antenna user terminal is located within the service range of the macro base station (Macro BS). Due to the size of the macro base station antenna, although the macro base station may have more antennas than the user terminals, the strong correlation between the antennas causes the maximum number of data streams transmitted by the macro base station to the user terminal to be smaller than the number of antennas of the user terminal.
• the second category: Multi-antenna user terminals are located within the service range of the micro base station (Pico BS or Femto BS). Since the pedestal height of the micro base station is low, and usually located in a city block, the communication signal has strong directivity, and the user terminal can align the uplink transmission signal to different directions through multiple antennas, thereby being compared with the microcells located in different directions. Communication, and mutual interference is small. Therefore, the number of antennas of the user terminal is sufficient to distinguish the signal directions of different base stations.
• FIG. 1 is a flowchart of an embodiment of a method for transmitting a signal according to the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the method of the present invention includes:
• Step 101 Set up virtual users, each virtual user being associated with one base station.
• the user terminal may set a plurality of virtual users (indicated as one), wherein an identifier (Identity; abbreviation: ID) is set for each virtual user, and is associated with a corresponding base station.
• ID an identifier
• multiple virtual users can be associated with different base stations or the same base station, that is, the first base station and the second base station can represent the same base station.
• ⁇ integers and are not equal to ⁇ . And are greater than or equal to 1, and less than or equal to ⁇ .
• Step 102 Acquire base station precoding and user precoding corresponding to each virtual user of the K virtual users.
• ⁇ is equal to 1 at the beginning. After acquiring the base station precoding and the user precoding G corresponding to the first virtual user, adding 1 to calculate the base station precoding ⁇ 2 and the user precoding corresponding to the second virtual user, and repeating the step until the calculation Obtaining base station precoding and user precoding Q K corresponding to the first virtual user.
• Step 103 The baseband signal is offloaded to the virtual user, and the baseband signal of the shunt corresponding to each virtual user of the K virtual users is obtained.
• the baseband signal is shunted such that each virtual user acquires a portion of the baseband signal.
• the baseband signals acquired by each virtual user may be the same or different.
• Step 104 According to base station precoding and user precoding corresponding to each virtual user, respectively The shunt baseband signal corresponding to each virtual user is processed to obtain an uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user.
• Step 105 Obtain time advances of base stations corresponding to f virtual users, t 2 , . . . , t ⁇ , and pass antennas when max ⁇ t -min , ⁇ ..., ⁇ ; ⁇ Transmitting, to the base station corresponding to each virtual user, an uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user;
• ⁇ is greater than or equal to 1;
• S is a preset threshold;
• A is the time advance of the first base station corresponding to the first virtual user;
• t 2 is the second base station corresponding to the second virtual user The amount of time advance; the amount of time advancement of the base station corresponding to the virtual user.
• each user terminal acquires the timing advance of the corresponding base station, so that the uplink signals of all the user terminals are obtained.
• the time advance is related to the distance of the user terminal. The larger the time advance, the larger the distance between the user terminal and the base station.
• the uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user can be simultaneously transmitted to the base station corresponding to each virtual user through the antenna.
• Timing Advance since different base stations may use different timing advances (Timing Advance), if the user simultaneously transmits uplink baseband signals with f base stations, and the time advance difference required by the base stations is greater than a preset threshold, This may result in some base stations not receiving the baseband signal normally. Therefore, it is necessary to compare the timing advance of each base station, and when max ⁇ -min ⁇ ... ⁇ , it can ensure that each base station can normally receive the baseband signal.
• M virtual users may be selected from a virtual user, where The time advance of the base station corresponding to the M virtual users satisfies ⁇ ⁇ ( ⁇ 2 ,..., ⁇ )- ⁇ ( ⁇ 2 ,..., ⁇ ) ⁇ 5, so that the antenna can be simultaneously
• the base station corresponding to the virtual user transmits the uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user.
• a virtual user is set up, and each virtual user is associated with a base station, and base station precoding and user precoding corresponding to each virtual user of the K virtual users are obtained, and the baseband signal is offloaded to K virtual users, and K are obtained.
• the baseband signal of the shunt corresponding to each virtual user in the virtual user, and then precoding and pre-coding according to the base station corresponding to each virtual user Encoding, respectively processing the shunt baseband signal corresponding to each user to obtain an uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user; and then acquiring the time advance of the base station corresponding to the virtual user
• the antenna transmits the uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user to the base station corresponding to each virtual user, so that the user terminal simultaneously transmits different or the same uplink signals to different or the same base station, and ensures different virtual
• the interference between the uplink signals of the user can be controlled, thereby effectively improving the efficiency of the user terminal transmitting the uplink signal.
• FIG. 2 is a flowchart of another embodiment of a method for transmitting a signal according to the present invention.
• a duplex mode in which a base station uses TDD a H...HH...a user terminal also adopts a duplex mode of TDD.
• the technical solution of the present invention will be described in detail. As shown in Figure 2, the method includes:
• Step 201 Set up virtual users, each virtual user being associated with one base station.
• the user terminal may set a plurality of virtual users (indicated as one, wherein an ID is set for each virtual user, and is associated with a corresponding base station.
• Multiple virtual users may be associated with different base stations or the same base station, that is, the base station and the base station may represent the same base station, where and are integers and are not equal to.
• Ho step 202 downlink pilot transmission frequency according to a first base station, the user terminal estimates the uplink channel matrix H of the base station;.
• the uplink and downlink use the same frequency spectrum, so the downlink channel is the uplink channel, that is, the user terminal can use the downlink pilot transmitted to each base station.
• the uplink channel matrix of the user terminal to each base station is estimated, thereby obtaining an uplink channel matrix of the user terminal to the f base stations.
• Step 203 According to other uplink channel matrices except H ; formula (1):
• D is the second matrix after singular value decomposition, and D diagonal;
• each virtual user is associated with a different base station.
• the base stations associated with the virtual users are the same as the base stations associated with the virtual users, when performing step 203, the uplink channel matrix of the base stations associated with the user terminals to some virtual users needs to be excluded.
• the formula (1) is replaced by the formula (2):
• Step 204 Offload the uplink pilot to the virtual user.
• Ho step 205 based on the first 'virtual station corresponding to the user precoding ⁇ , the first Z' corresponding to virtual users uplink pilot shunt precoded pilot, via the antenna, corresponds to the second Z 'virtual users
• the base station transmits the pre-coded offloaded uplink pilot, and the base station measures the uplink channel Hfi of the first virtual user and the base station according to the pre-coded offloaded uplink pilot, and will the equivalent uplink channel to obtain H ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ the second virtual user corresponding to the user precoding beta]. transmits to the user terminal.
• Step 206 the second ⁇ 'receives the second virtual user ⁇ ' user base station transmits precoding beta] .
• Step 205 and step 206 are repeated until the virtual user receives the user precoding & sent by the base station.
• the number of antennas of the 'virtual user' is N T - .
• the base station performs scheduling based on the pre-coded uplink pilot shunts sent by the virtual users in all user terminals in the cell, so as to obtain the user pre-coding ⁇ corresponding to the z- th virtual user, and passes the equivalent uplink channel.
• H sends the user precoding ⁇ corresponding to the first virtual user to the user terminal to which the virtual user belongs.
• the base station acquires the user precoding ⁇ corresponding to the virtual user ;
• the main method may be implemented in the following manners:
• the base station determines the user precoding corresponding to the virtual user by using an existing single-cell uplink precoder algorithm based on the uplink pilots of all user terminals in its cell.
• the second type the base station uses the unit matrix, sets the second user prefix corresponding to the virtual user pre-coding step 207, offloads the baseband signal to a virtual user, and obtains the shunt corresponding to each virtual user of the virtual users.
• Baseband signal The second type: the base station uses the unit matrix, sets the second user prefix corresponding to the virtual user pre-coding step 207, offloads the baseband signal to a virtual user, and obtains the shunt corresponding to each virtual user of the virtual users. Baseband signal.
• Step 208 Process, according to the base station precoding and the user precoding ⁇ ,., the shunted baseband signal corresponding to the virtual user, to obtain an uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user. Repeat this step until the uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user is obtained.
• Step 209 Obtain time advances of base stations corresponding to f virtual users, t 2 , . . . , t ⁇ , and at 0 1 ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ ..., ⁇ ;) - 1 ⁇ 1 ⁇ 1 ⁇ 2 , ... ;) ⁇
• the uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user is transmitted to the base station corresponding to each virtual user through the antenna.
• each virtual user is associated with a base station And obtaining base station precoding and user precoding corresponding to each virtual user of the ⁇ virtual users, and dividing the baseband signal to the virtual users, and acquiring the shunt baseband signals corresponding to each virtual user of the virtual users, According to the base station precoding and the user precoding corresponding to each virtual user, respectively, the shunt baseband signals corresponding to each user are processed to obtain an uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user; and then, the base stations corresponding to the virtual users are obtained.
• Time advance Time advance
• FIG. 3 is a flowchart of still another embodiment of a method for transmitting a signal according to the present invention.
• a service range of a macro base station where a user terminal is in an FDD is taken as an example, and a technical solution of the present invention is described in detail.
• the downlink signal of the base station since the location of the macro base station is high, and there are many reflectors around the user terminal, the downlink signal of the base station has no obvious directivity, that is, downlink. The angular spread of the signal is relatively large.
• the method includes:
• Step 301 Set up virtual users, each virtual user being associated with one base station.
• the user terminal may set a plurality of virtual users (recorded as K, wherein an ID is set for each virtual user, and is associated with a corresponding base station.
• Multiple virtual users may be associated with different base stations or the same base station, that is, the base station and the base station may represent the same base station, where sum is an integer and is not equal to.
• Ho step 302 the first set z 'corresponding to the original virtual user station precoding I; ho of the step is repeatedly executed until the initial setting of the virtual base station precoder corresponding to the user'.
• Step 303 Offload the uplink pilot to the virtual user.
• Ho step 304 based on the first 'pre-coding if the virtual station corresponding to the user, the first Z' corresponding to virtual users uplink pilot frequency shunt precoded and transmitted to the base station preprogrammed via an antenna
• the uplink pilot of the offloaded after the code for each base station to obtain an equivalent uplink channel of the first virtual user and the base station according to the uplink pilot of the precoded offload.
• Step 305 Receive an equivalent uplink channel of the virtual user sent by each base station and the base station, to obtain an equivalent uplink channel of the Z ′ virtual user and f base stations.
• Step 306 Apply initial formula (3) according to initial base station precoding corresponding to each virtual user and the first virtual user and f base station H line channels: Obtain the upper H...HH... line I ⁇ «channel matrix H,.
• Step 307 According to other uplink channel matrices, formula (1) is used:
• H acquires D and performs conjugate transposition of ⁇ , obtains, and sets the last N T - columns to the matrix of the mating to the base station precoding corresponding to the 'virtual user';
• D is the second matrix after singular value decomposition, and D diagonal
• ⁇ is the first unitary matrix after singular value decomposition
• the number of effective antennas of the base station is N ; and H ; is a complex matrix of dimensions N ; x N T .
• the premise of formula (1) is that each virtual user is associated with a different base station.
• the base station associated with the virtual user is the same as the base station associated with the virtual user, when performing step 307, the uplink channel matrix of the base station associated with the user terminal to some virtual users needs to be excluded.
• the formula (1) is replaced by the formula (2):
• steps 304 to 307 are repeatedly performed until the base station precoding corresponding to the first virtual user is obtained.
• Step 308 Update initial base station precoding corresponding to each virtual user according to base station precoding corresponding to each virtual user.
• steps 304 through 308 may be performed periodically, so that the user terminal can update the initial base station precoding corresponding to each virtual user in real time.
• Ho step 309, ' ⁇ , Z of the first base station precoder corresponding to virtual users' uplink pilot corresponding to virtual users shunt precoded pilot based on the first, via the antenna, corresponding to the first base station to the second virtual user precoding And then the offloaded uplink pilot, for the base station to measure the uplink channel Hfi of the first virtual user and the base station according to the uplink pilot of the precoded offload, and according to the equivalent uplink channel H ⁇ acquired the second virtual user precoding ⁇ corresponding to the user; sent to the user terminal.
• Ho step 310 the user receives a second virtual ⁇ ⁇ ⁇ -user precoding the second base station, ..
• step 309 to step 3 10 are repeated until the first virtual user receives the user precoding & sent by the first base station.
• the number of antennas of the 'virtual user' is
• the base station performs scheduling based on the pre-coded uplink pilot offload sent by the virtual user in all user terminals in the cell, thereby acquiring the user precoding corresponding to the virtual user.
• the base station performs scheduling based on the pre-coded uplink pilot offload sent by the virtual user in all user terminals in the cell, thereby acquiring the user precoding corresponding to the virtual user.
• ⁇ and the second ⁇ 'virtual user-user precoding Qi corresponding to the user terminal the i virtual user belongs.
• the first base station obtains the user precoding ⁇ corresponding to the virtual user, which can be implemented in the following manners:
• the base station uses the unit matrix to set the user precoding ⁇ ,. corresponding to the virtual user.
• Step 311 The baseband signal is offloaded to the virtual users, and the baseband signals of the shunts corresponding to each of the virtual users are obtained.
• Step 312 Perform, according to the base station precoding and the user precoding ⁇ ., processing the offloaded baseband signal corresponding to the second virtual user, and acquiring an uplink signal corresponding to the first virtual user. This step is repeated until the uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user is obtained.
• Step 313 Obtain a timing advance of a base station corresponding to a virtual user, t 2 , . . . , t ⁇ , and at 0 1 ⁇ ( ⁇ ..., ⁇ ;) ⁇ 1 ⁇ 1 ⁇ 1 ⁇ 2 , When ... ;), the uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user is transmitted to the base station corresponding to each virtual user through the antenna.
• each virtual user is associated with a base station, acquiring base station precoding and user precoding corresponding to each virtual user of the virtual users, and offloading the baseband signal to the virtual users, and acquiring one
• the baseband signals of the shunts corresponding to each virtual user in the virtual user are processed according to the base station precoding and the user precoding corresponding to each virtual user, respectively, and the shunt baseband signals corresponding to each user are respectively processed to obtain corresponding virtual user corresponding Uplink signal; then, obtain the time advancement ⁇ t x , t 2 ,..., t K ⁇ of the base station corresponding to the virtual user, and at 0 ⁇ ( ⁇ 2 ,..., ⁇ )- 1 1 1 1 When ( ⁇ 2 , . .
• the uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user is transmitted to the base station corresponding to each virtual user through the antenna, so that the user terminal transmits differently to different or the same base station at the same time.
• the same uplink signal ensures that the interference between the uplink signals of different virtual users can be controlled, thereby effectively improving the transmission of the user terminal. The efficiency of the uplink signal.
• FIG. 4 is a flowchart of still another embodiment of a method for transmitting a signal according to the present invention.
• a service range of a macro base station where a user terminal is in FDD is taken as an example, and the technology of the present invention is introduced in detail.
• the downlink signal of the base station since the location of the macro base station is high, and there are many reflectors around the user terminal, the downlink signal of the base station has no obvious directivity, that is, downlink.
• the angular spread of the signal is relatively large.
• the method includes:
• Step 401 Set up virtual users, each virtual user being associated with one base station.
• the user terminal may set a plurality of virtual users (reported as K), wherein each virtual user is set with an identification ID and associated with a corresponding base station.
• K virtual users
• multiple virtual users can be associated with different base stations or the same base station, that is, the base station and the base station can represent the same base station, where and are integers and are not equal.
• Step 402 Using the unit matrix, set the base station pre-HH... «, the encoding of the Z ' virtual user. This step is repeated until the base station precoding corresponding to the virtual user is set.
• Step 403 Offload the uplink pilot to the virtual user.
• Ho step 404 based on the first 'corresponding to the virtual base station precoder user i, the first Z' corresponding to virtual users uplink pilot shunt precoded pilot, and, are transmitted to the shunt precoded first base station through an antenna Uplink pilot, for the base station to measure an uplink channel of the base station to the user terminal according to the uplink pilot of the pre-coded offload, and feed back the uplink channel matrix to the user terminal.
• Step 405 Receive an uplink channel matrix fed back by the base station
• Step 406 according to other uplink channel matrices except H ; using the formula UDV
• the matrix is set to the user precoding G corresponding to the first virtual user ; wherein, the number of elements greater than a preset value on the D diagonal; ⁇ is the user terminal
• the number of effective antennas of the base station is N, . , and is a complex matrix of dimensions N, . x N T .
• the premise of formula (1) is that each virtual user is associated with a different base station.
• the base stations associated with some virtual users are the same as the base stations associated with the 'virtual users', when performing step 406, it is also necessary to exclude the uplink channel matrix of the base stations to which the user terminals are associated with certain virtual users.
• the formula (1) is replaced by the formula (2):
• steps 404 through 406 are repeatedly performed until the user precoding & corresponding to the virtual user is obtained.
• Step 407 The baseband signal is offloaded to the virtual user, and the baseband signal of the shunt corresponding to each virtual user of the K virtual users is obtained.
• Step 408 Perform, according to the base station precoding and the user precoding ⁇ ., processing the offloaded baseband signal corresponding to the second virtual user, and acquiring an uplink signal corresponding to the first virtual user. This step is repeated until the uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user is obtained.
• a virtual user is set up, and each virtual user is associated with a base station, and base station precoding and user precoding corresponding to each virtual user of the k virtual virtual users are obtained, and the baseband signal is offloaded to K virtual users, and K is obtained.
• the baseband signals of the shunts corresponding to each virtual user in each virtual user are processed according to the base station precoding and the user precoding corresponding to each virtual user, respectively, and the shunt baseband signals corresponding to each user are respectively processed to obtain each virtual user.
• the uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user is transmitted to the base station corresponding to each virtual user through the antenna, so that the user terminal simultaneously transmits different or the same uplink signals to different or the same base station, and ensures different
• the interference between the uplink signals of the virtual users can be controlled, thereby effectively improving the efficiency of the user terminal transmitting the uplink signals.
• FIG. 5 is a flowchart of still another embodiment of a signal transmission method according to the present invention.
• the technical solution of the present invention is described in detail by taking the service range of the micro base station where the user terminal is in FDD as an example. It should be noted that, in this embodiment, since the erection position of the micro base station is low, the signal is mostly directional. Therefore, the user terminal does not need to measure the uplink channel, but can directly use the average downlink channel matrix as the estimated value of the uplink channel matrix.
• the method includes:
• Step 501 Set up a virtual user, and each virtual user is associated with one base station.
• the user terminal may set a plurality of virtual users (recorded as K, wherein each virtual user is set with one identification ID and associated with a corresponding base station.
• K the number of virtual users
• multiple virtual users can be associated with different base stations or the same base station, that is, the base station and the base station can represent the same base station, where sum is an integer, and not equal to ⁇ .
• Step 502 Measure an average value of downlink channels of the base stations to the user terminals, F 2 , . . . F ⁇ in a preset time window ;
• Step 503 Transpose an average value of the downlink channel of the Z ′′ base station to the user terminal, and use an average value of the transposed downlink channel as the uplink channel matrix of the user terminal to the base station.
• Step 504 According to other uplink channel matrices except H ;, formula (1) is adopted:
• H obtains D and ; performs conjugate transposition on ⁇ , obtains, and sets the matrix of the last N T - columns to Tao Cheng as the base station precoding corresponding to the 'virtual user';
• D is the second matrix after singular value decomposition, and D diagonal
• ⁇ is the first unitary matrix after singular value decomposition
• the number of effective antennas of the base station is ⁇
• ⁇ is a complex matrix of dimensions N ⁇ N T .
• steps 503 and 504 are repeatedly performed until the base station precoding corresponding to the virtual user is obtained.
• each virtual user is associated with a different Base station.
• the base stations associated with the virtual users are the same as the base stations associated with the virtual users, when performing step 504, it is also necessary to exclude the uplink channel matrix of the base stations to which the user terminals are associated with certain virtual users.
• the formula (1) is replaced by the formula (2):
• Step 505 Offload the uplink pilot to the virtual user.
• Step 506 Perform precoding on the uplink pilot shunt corresponding to the virtual user according to the base station precoding corresponding to the first virtual user, and send the precoded offload to the second base station corresponding to the virtual user by using an antenna.
• uplink pilot, pilot for the second base station according to the uplink pilot diverted after precoding, measuring the equivalent uplink channel of the virtual user and the second base station and the acquired uplink channel based on the equivalent of the ⁇ ⁇ H
• the user precoding ⁇ corresponding to the virtual user is sent to the user terminal.
• Step 507 The first virtual user receives a user precoding ⁇ , transmitted by the first base station.
• step 506 and step 507 are repeatedly performed until the first virtual user receives the user precoding Q K sent by the base station.
• the number of antennas of the virtual user is N T - .
• Another Bu Xi the first base station based on the uplink pilot for all user terminals within its cell virtual user precoding transmission scheduling frequency split, so as to acquire first-user precoding ⁇ z 'corresponding to the virtual user; and the second ⁇ ⁇
• the user pre-coding ⁇ corresponding to the virtual user is sent to the user to which the virtual user belongs.
• the first base station acquires the user pre-coding ⁇ corresponding to the virtual user .
• the main method can be implemented in the following manners:
• the first type the base station reports based on the pre-reported by the virtual user in all user terminals in the cell. Coded uplink pilot frequency split, the user determines the precoding of the user corresponding to the virtual ⁇ ⁇
• the second type the base station uses the unit matrix to set the user precoding corresponding to the virtual user.
• Step 508 The baseband signal is offloaded to the virtual users, and the baseband signals corresponding to the shunts of each virtual user are obtained.
• Step 509 Perform, according to the base station precoding and the user precoding ⁇ ., processing the offloaded baseband signal corresponding to the virtual user, and acquiring an uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user. Repeat this step until the uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user is obtained.
• Step 510 Obtain a timing advance of a base station corresponding to a virtual user, t 2 , . . . , t ⁇ , and at 0 1 ⁇ ( ⁇ ..., ⁇ ;) ⁇ 1 ⁇ 1 ⁇ 1 ⁇ 2 , When ... ;), the uplink signal corresponding to the virtual user is transmitted to the base station corresponding to each virtual user through the antenna.
• i is [1, K]
• s is the preset threshold
• the first corresponding to the first virtual user The timing advance of the base station
• t 2 is the timing advance of the second base station corresponding to the second virtual user
• t is the timing advance of the base station corresponding to the virtual user.
• each virtual user is associated with a base station, acquiring base station precoding and user precoding corresponding to each virtual user of the virtual users, and offloading the baseband signal to the virtual users, and acquiring one
• the baseband signals of the shunts corresponding to each virtual user in the virtual user are processed according to the base station precoding and the user precoding corresponding to each virtual user, respectively, and the shunt baseband signals corresponding to each user are respectively processed to obtain corresponding virtual user corresponding Uplink signal; then, obtain the time advancement ⁇ t v t 2 ,...,t K ⁇ of the base station corresponding to the virtual user, and at 0 ⁇ ( ⁇ 2 ,..., ⁇ )- 1 1 1 ( ⁇ 2 , . . .
• the uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user is transmitted to the base station corresponding to each virtual user through the antenna, so that the user terminal transmits different or the same to different or the same base station at the same time.
• the uplink signal ensures that the interference between the uplink signals of different virtual users can be controlled, thereby effectively improving the efficiency of the user terminal transmitting the uplink signal.
• the method may further include:
• the shunt baseband signals corresponding to each user are processed to obtain an uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user.
• FIG. 6 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a signal processing apparatus according to the present invention.
• the user terminal of this embodiment includes: a setting module 11, an obtaining module 12, a shunting module 13, a processing module 14, and a sending module 15.
• the setting module 11 is configured to set a virtual user, each virtual user is associated with a base station; the obtaining module 12 is configured to acquire base station precoding and user precoding corresponding to each virtual user of the K virtual users; 13 is configured to offload the baseband signal to a virtual user, and obtain a baseband signal corresponding to the split of each of the K virtual users; the processing module 14 is configured to perform base station precoding and user precoding according to each virtual user, The shunted baseband signals corresponding to each virtual user are respectively processed to obtain an uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user; the sending module 15 is configured to acquire a time advance amount of the base station corresponding to each virtual user, t 2 , . . .
• the uplink signal corresponding to the user wherein, all are integers and greater than or equal to 1; S is a preset threshold; ⁇ is the time advance of the first base station corresponding to the first virtual user; 2 The timing advance of the base station; the time advance of the base station corresponding to the virtual user.
• the user terminal in this embodiment can perform the technical solution of the method embodiment shown in FIG. 1. The principle is similar, and details are not described herein again.
• each virtual user is associated with a base station, acquiring base station precoding and user precoding corresponding to each virtual user of the k virtual users, and dividing the baseband signal to the k virtual users, and acquiring k
• the baseband signals of the shunts corresponding to each virtual user in the virtual user are processed according to the base station precoding and the user precoding corresponding to each virtual user, respectively, and the shunt baseband signals corresponding to each user are respectively processed to obtain corresponding virtual user corresponding Uplink signal; then, obtaining the time advance of the base station corresponding to the virtual user
• the base station corresponding to each virtual user transmits an uplink signal corresponding to each virtual user, so that the user terminal simultaneously transmits different or the same uplink signals to different or the same base station, and ensures the uplink signals between different virtual users. Interference can be controlled, which effectively improves the transmission of user terminals. The efficiency of the uplink signal.
• FIG. 7 is a schematic structural diagram of another embodiment of a signal processing apparatus according to the present invention.
• the duplex mode of the TDD is used by the base station, and the duplex mode of the TDD is also taken as an example for the user terminal, and the present invention is described in detail.
• the obtaining module 12 includes: an uplink channel matrix acquiring unit 121 and a base station precoding obtaining unit 122, where the uplink channel matrix acquiring unit 121 is configured to acquire a user terminal.
• the base station precoding acquisition unit 122 is configured to perform other operations according to H ;
• the uplink channel matrix obtaining unit 121 is specifically configured to estimate the uplink channel matrix H,. of the user equipment to the base station according to the downlink pilot transmitted by the base station.
• the downlink channel is the uplink channel, that is, the user terminal can estimate the user terminal by using the downlink pilot transmitted to each base station. Go to the uplink channel matrix of each base station to obtain the uplink channel matrix from the user terminal to the f base stations.
• the offloading module 13 is further configured to offload the uplink pilot to the virtual user.
• the processing module 14 is further configured to precode the offloaded uplink pilot corresponding to the virtual user according to the base station precoding corresponding to the virtual user. ;
• the sending module 15 is further configured to send, by using an antenna, the pre-coded offloaded uplink pilot to the second base station corresponding to the virtual user, for the base station to perform uplink according to the pre-coded offload Pilot, an equivalent uplink channel measurement H of the virtual user and the second base station ⁇ , according to the acquired uplink equivalent channel H ⁇ corresponding to the first virtual user-user precoding [rho]; to the user terminal; obtaining module 12 is further
• the user precoding acquisition unit 123 is configured to enable the first virtual user to receive the user precoding ⁇ , transmitted by the base station.
• the user terminal of this embodiment may perform the technical solution of the method embodiment shown in FIG. 2, and the implementation principles thereof are similar, and details are not described herein again.
• FIG. 8 is a schematic structural diagram of still another embodiment of a signal processing apparatus according to the present invention.
• the technical solution of the present invention is described in detail by taking the service range of the macro base station where the user terminal is in the FDD as an example.
• the setting module 11 is further configured to set an initial base station precoding if corresponding to the virtual user;
• the shunt module 13 is also used for The uplink pilot is offloaded to the virtual user.
• the processing module 14 is further configured to perform precoding on the offloaded uplink pilot corresponding to the virtual user according to the base station precoding if corresponding to the virtual user, and send the uplink pilot to the base station through the antenna.
• Pre-coded offloaded uplink pilots for each base station to obtain an equivalent uplink channel of the second virtual user and the base station according to the pre-coded offloaded uplink pilot;
• the obtaining module 12 includes: an uplink channel matrix acquiring unit 124 and a base station precoding acquiring unit 125; wherein, the uplink channel matrix acquiring unit 124 is configured to receive an equivalent uplink channel of the virtual user sent by each base station and the base station, to obtain The equivalent uplink channel of the first virtual user and the base station; and according to the initial base station precoding corresponding to each virtual user and the virtual user adopting formula Obtaining an uplink channel matrix H of the user terminal to the base station ;
• the base station precoding acquisition unit 125 is configured for each virtual user according to H :
• the yoke is transposed, obtained, and the matrix formed by the last column vector is set to the first virtual
• the base station corresponding to the intended user is precoded, where i is an integer and the value ranges from [1, K]; is greater than one pre-D on the D diagonal
• H the number of elements of the value
• ⁇ is the number of antennas of the user terminal
• D is the singular value of the pair
• the second matrix after the solution; ⁇ is the first unitary matrix after the singular value decomposition
• the offloading module 13 is further configured to offload the uplink pilot to the virtual user;
• the processing module 14 is further configured to perform, according to the base station precoding corresponding to the virtual user, the virtual
• the uplink pilot of the offload corresponding to the user is precoded
• the sending module 15 is further configured to: send, by using an antenna, the pre-coded offloaded uplink pilot to the first base station corresponding to the virtual user, so that the first base station measures the virtual user according to the pre-coded offloaded uplink pilot.
• the equivalent uplink channel of the base station ⁇ H, and the acquired H according to the equivalent of virtual uplink channel corresponds to the user-user precoding [rho]; to the user terminal; obtaining module 12 further comprising: obtaining a user precoding unit 126 for The first virtual user is received by the user precoding ⁇ .
• the user terminal of this embodiment may perform the technical solution of the method embodiment shown in FIG. 3, and the implementation principles thereof are similar, and details are not described herein again.
• FIG. 9 is a schematic structural diagram of still another embodiment of a signal processing apparatus according to the present invention.
• the technical solution of the present invention is described in detail by taking the service range of the macro base station where the user terminal is in FDD as an example.
• the obtaining module 12 includes: a base station precoding obtaining unit 127, configured to set a base station precoding corresponding to the virtual user by using a unit matrix.
• the offloading module 13 is further configured to offload the uplink pilot to a virtual user.
• the processing module 14 is further configured to perform precoding on the offloaded uplink pilot according to the base station precoding if corresponding to the first virtual user.
• the sending module 15 is further configured to send, by using an antenna, the pre-coded offloaded uplink pilot to the second base station, so that the second base station measures the uplink channel of the base station to the user terminal according to the pre-coded offloaded uplink pilot.
• the matrix, and the uplink channel matrix is fed back to the user terminal;
• the obtaining module 12 further includes: the user precoding obtaining unit 128 is configured to receive the uplink channel matrix fed back by the base stations and according to other uplink channel matrices except H ;
• the matrix consisting of the last N T - column vectors is set to be the user precoding corresponding to the virtual user, where i is an integer and the value ranges from [ 1, K]; is greater than one pre-D on the D diagonal
• H the number of elements of the value
• ⁇ is the number of antennas of the user terminal
• D is the singular value of the pair
• the second matrix after the solution; ⁇ is the first unitary matrix after the singular value decomposition
• the user terminal in this embodiment can perform the technical solution of the method embodiment shown in FIG. 4, but the principle is similar, and details are not described herein again.
• FIG. 10 is a schematic structural diagram of still another embodiment of a signal processing apparatus according to the present invention.
• the block 12 includes: an uplink channel matrix acquiring unit 129 and a base station precoding acquiring unit 130, wherein the uplink channel matrix acquiring unit 129 measures the average value of the downlink channel of the base station to the user terminal in the preset time window to the base station to the user.
• the average value of the downlink channel of the terminal is transposed, and the average value of the transposed downlink channel is used as the uplink channel matrix H of the user terminal to the base station ; HH. «, the base station precoding acquisition unit 130 is configured to
• the channel matrix using the formula UDV', gets ) and performs a conjugate transpose on ⁇
• the matrix formed by the last column vector is set as the base station precoding corresponding to the virtual user; wherein, ⁇ is the number of elements greater than a preset value on the diagonal of D; N T is the user terminal
• the offloading module 13 is further configured to offload the uplink pilot to the virtual user.
• the processing module 14 is further configured to perform precoding on the offloaded uplink pilot corresponding to the virtual user according to the base station precoding corresponding to the virtual user. ;
• the sending module 15 is further configured to: send, by using an antenna, the pre-coded offloaded uplink pilot to the first base station corresponding to the virtual user, so that the first base station measures the virtual user according to the pre-coded offloaded uplink pilot.
• the equivalent uplink channel H ⁇ of the base station, and the user pre-coding ⁇ , which is corresponding to the virtual user acquired by the equivalent uplink channel H ⁇ , is sent to the user terminal.
• the acquiring module 12 further includes: a user pre-coding acquisition unit
• the 131 is configured to enable the 'virtual user to receive the user precoding ⁇ , transmitted by the base station.
• the user terminal in this embodiment may perform the technical solution of the method embodiment shown in FIG. 5, and the implementation principles thereof are similar, and details are not described herein again.
• the obtaining module 12 is further configured to acquire uplink time-frequency corresponding to each virtual user. Resources, and modulation and coding modes;
• the processing module 14 is specifically configured to process, according to the base station precoding, the user precoding, the uplink time-frequency resource, and the modulation and coding mode corresponding to each virtual user, respectively, respectively, the shunt baseband signals corresponding to each user are processed, and each is obtained.
• the present invention also provides a user terminal, comprising a memory and a processor, wherein the memory is for storing instructions; the processor is coupled to the memory, the processor is configured to execute instructions stored in the memory, and the processor
• a user terminal comprising a memory and a processor, wherein the memory is for storing instructions; the processor is coupled to the memory, the processor is configured to execute instructions stored in the memory, and the processor
• the transmission method of the signal shown in any of the embodiments shown in FIG. 1 to FIG. 5 is similar to the implementation principle, and details are not described herein again.
• FIG. 1 is a schematic structural diagram of an embodiment of a signal transmission system according to the present invention, which is characterized in that it comprises a plurality of base stations 21 and user terminals 22. Specifically, the base station 21 is associated with one virtual user in the user terminal 22.
• the user terminal 22 can perform the technical solutions shown in any of the embodiments of FIG. 1 to FIG. 5, and can be the processing device of the signals shown in any of FIG. 6 to FIG. 10, and the implementation principles thereof are similar, and details are not described herein again. .
• FIG. 12 is a schematic diagram of another embodiment of a signal transmission system according to the present invention.
• the number of base stations 21 based on the embodiment shown in FIG. 11 above, for example, the number of base stations 21 Specifically, the user terminal 21 specifically sets a virtual user, and each virtual user corresponds to one user precoding and one base station precoding.
• the baseband signal is shunted to a virtual user, and the virtual user performs baseband processing on the offloaded baseband signal according to the acquired uplink time-frequency resource, modulation and coding mode, and then pre-codes according to user precoding ⁇ . and base station respectively.
• the user terminal simultaneously transmits different or the same uplink signals to different or the same base station, and ensures different virtual
• the interference between the uplink signals of the user can be controlled, thereby effectively improving the efficiency of the user terminal transmitting the uplink signal.
• the steps can be completed by the hardware associated with the program instructions.
• the aforementioned program can be stored in a computer readable storage medium.
• the program when executed, performs the steps including the foregoing method embodiments; and the foregoing storage medium includes: a medium that can store program codes, such as a ROM, a RAM, a magnetic disk, or an optical disk.

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